Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Evaluating the Validity of the Contrasting Theoretical Perspectives towards the Informal Economy in Ukraine

Chapter 3 Institutional Transformation and Informality in Azerbaijan and Georgia

Chapter 4 Fighting the Shadows: Lithuania’s Informal Workers and the Financial Crisis

Chapter 5 Formal Crutches for Broken Sociality

Chapter 6 Field Notes on Informality’s Culture of Ubiquity: Recognition and Symbolic Power within Informal Economic Practices in Kosovo

Chapter 7 The Importance of Having štela: Reproduction of Informality in the Democratization Sector in Bosnia

Chapter 8 Perceptions vs. Practices: Nepotism in Small Businesses in Bulgaria

Chapter 9 The Importance of Personalized Relationships in Post-Socialist Rural Bulgaria: Informality of New Capitalist Entrepreneurs

Chapter 11 Nuclear Borders: Informally Negotiating the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

Chapter 12 Governing Informal Payments in Healthcare: Lessons from China

Chapter 13 Informal Economic Practices within the Kyrgyz Police (militsiia)

Chapter 14 Conclusion